Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Netherlands and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Archie Shepp to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Trumans Water,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
U.S. Maple,
Blake Baxter,
Gong,
Spoonie Gee,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neu!,
Bad Manners,
Metal Thangz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
Technova,
Grauzone,
Eric Dolphy,
Minnie Riperton,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sarah Menescal,
Radiopuhelimet,
Reagan Youth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Barrington Levy,
Television,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marvin Gaye,
Slick Rick,
Visage,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantytec,
Desert Stars,
Leonard Cohen,
Warsaw,
Black Bananas,
Bauhaus,
Scientists,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tres Demented,
Tom Boy,
The Doobie Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Leaves,
Young Marble Giants,
The Neon Judgement,
Hasil Adkins,
Y Pants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David Axelrod,
EPMD,
Au Pairs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marine Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
Arcadia,
Hardrive,
Qualms,
Alphaville,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.